8:09 PM,
Mar. 23, 2013

Putnam County District Attorney Adam Levy at an appearance in October.

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The Putnam County district attorney's former live-in personal trainer, who's been charged with raping a 12-year-old girl, bragged about working for the county's top prosecutor and was well known to be an illegal immigrant, according to a relative of the alleged victim.

The relative's statements provide more details about Alexandru Hossu, 35, who was charged last week with two counts of first-degree rape, and whose arrest has fed a feud between District Attorney Adam Levy and Putnam County Sheriff Donald B. Smith.

"I knew he was working for the D.A. Alex told everybody that," the relative ...